René Blum was a French choreographer, born in 1878 in 2nd arrondissement of Paris, who died in 1942.
Biography
René Blum (13 March 1878 – September 1942) was a French Jewish theatrical impresario. He was the founder of the Ballet de l'Opéra at Monte Carlo and was the younger brother of the Socialist Prime Minister of France, Léon Blum. A Jew, he was interned in various camps from 1941 until his death at the Auschwitz concentration camp in late September 1942. While imprisoned in the camps, he was known for keeping up the spirits of his fellow prisoners with tales of his life in the arts.
Contemporaries
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Paul Ladmirault
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Ida Rubinstein
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Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
German-French gallerist, art dealer and historian (1884-1979)
Olga Preobrajenska
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